Be Ye Holy — David Wilkerson

Heavenly Father, what exciting times to be alive, to be living at that time just before Christ returns, to live at that time when all the ends of the world are coming apart, and to know that no matter what happens, we are His, we are saved, and we are His holy people.

Lord, I pray tonight that the message will change lives. God, don't let anybody in the building tonight sit here without knowing, feeling, sensing the Holy Spirit's presence. Oh, Holy Spirit, come. Holy Spirit, come.

Holy Spirit, come and speak through the power of Your Word. Let the Word go forth as a two-edged sword to cut through everything in our hearts to the very marrow of our bone. Lord, cut us to heal us.

Lord, there are people here tonight that are sick of their sin. They're tired of being a slave to the devil. They're tired of being pushed around by their sins and the devil. God, open up a door of escape.

Let there be a miracle happen to everybody here tonight that's tired of sin. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Be ye holy. Three months after Israel left Egypt, they arrived at the foot of Mount Sinai, this great mountain.

Moses looked at it and climbed up that mountain to talk to God. And here's what God said to Moses on top of Mount Sinai. I'm going to come to you in the form of a dark cloud so that the people themselves can hear me when I talk with you, and then they will always believe you.

So go down and get the people ready for my visit. Sanctify them. Have them wash their clothes. Let them abstain from sexual contact with their wives. Set boundary lines around the mountain so the people can't pass by and warn them not to come near the mountain.

Tell them not to even touch the boundary lines or they will die. And when you hear the sound of a ram's horn sounding one long blast, then gather all the children of Israel at the foot of the mountain outside the boundaries.

And on the morning of the third day, there was an awesome thunder and lightning storm, and a huge cloud came down upon the mountain, and all Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because Jehovah God descended upon it in the form of fire.

The whole mountain shook with a violent earthquake. As the trumpet blast grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God thundered His answer. God thundered His answer. What did God thunder? What did He say to Moses and all of His people?

He said this, You shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests. You shall be a holy people. God thundered that from heaven. Wouldn't you think the people who saw a mountain shake for six days, God rumbled that mountain.

In fact it was so horrifying, so frightening, they moved way back away from these boundaries around the mountain. Many of them hid in their tents. You could hear God speaking, but it was like thunder.

There was lightning. Six days, lightning and thunder and earthquakes, because God was speaking to Moses. Wouldn't you think that people who saw the very presence of God, who heard Him speak with thunder, wouldn't you think that they'd never turn their back on God again?

Wouldn't you think, well, that was so powerful, that'll change their life forever. But you know, in just 40 days, those people turned their back on God, became corrupted, stripped off their clothes and danced around a golden calf.

The Unshakable Kingdom and the Call to Holiness

Now, there's a prophecy in Hebrews. See, that's the Old Testament. Let me take you into the New Testament. It has to do with you and me. There's a beautiful but very important prophecy. And here it is.

His voice once shook the earth, but now God is promising, once more I'm going to shake not only the earth, but heaven also. So see that you don't refuse me when I speak, for if Israel didn't escape when they refused when I spoke on earth, much more shall you not escape if you turn away from God that speaketh from heaven.

God says, once more I'm going to shake the whole world like I did at Mount Sinai, and not only the earth, I'm going to shake the heaven, all the angels, Michael the archangel and all the seraphims and all the elders and all those who are gathered around the throne of God, the prince of powers and powers of heaven, and all the kingdom of the devil, Satan's kingdom is going to be shaken, and all earthly kingdoms are going to be shaken because God is going to thunder from heaven again, I call my people to be holy.

I am calling for holiness. We're beginning to see the fulfillment of that prophecy right now. My friends, God is going to shake everything that can be shaken, and the only thing that's going to remain when Jesus comes are things that can't be shaken, that are on the rock, Jesus Christ, unmovable, people who are closing in their hearts close to Christ, being filled with His Holy Spirit and changed by His power.

The Demand for Perfect Holiness

Be ye holy. God said, 1 Peter 1, 16, Be ye holy even as I am holy. God said, Be ye holy even as I am holy. This message has to be heard by every Christian. That's the message for Mohammedans, Gentiles, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, every race and color and creed.

God demands holiness. I hear that cry of the Holy Ghost in me. I've had it now on me for four to five months. I've been shutting myself in with God, and I hear that night and day. God is gathering together a holy, sanctified people.

Jesus came along and He said, You're not only to be holy, you're going to be perfect. He said, Be ye perfect even as your heavenly Father is perfect. Then you go to the New Testament, and you listen to all these, it seems like impossible demands.

God said He's coming back for people that are holy and blameless, glorious without spot or wrinkle. That means not even a spot of sin in their life. Holy, unblameable, unreprovable, righteous, pure, clean, cleansed from all the filthiness of the flesh.

Now, the Scripture says, There is not one person righteous, not one. There's none that understandeth. There's none that seeketh after God. Everyone's turned away from Him and become unprofitable. There's none that doeth good, no, not one.

That means in their own strength and their own power. This was before Jesus Christ came to reveal His righteousness. There was no righteous person on the face of the earth. But can you name me one truly holy, perfect person on the face of the earth?

You may know somebody that's religious, that goes to church a lot and testifies a lot. But you really don't know somebody that is really perfect like God. I want to show you something tonight. God demands perfect holiness.

He demands perfection. He demands that there be something happen in you that presents you to Him as a holy, perfect person. And when you hear that demand, you have to answer it in one of three ways. And everybody listening to me tonight is answering that call to be holy in one of these three ways.

The First Response: Giving Up in Despair

And I'm going to show you these three ways. And I want you to find out, examine yourself, and see which way you're responding to this call to be holy. The first response is to just give up and quit trying because you know you can't do it.

Oh, multitudes around the world are giving up. They say, I can't be holy. That's too high of a demand. I can never reach it. You see, inside your heart there's a conscience. And that conscience that says, do right.

Be holy. God pre-programmed that before you were even born. And if your conscience isn't saying, be holy, be clean, then you've seared it with a hard iron. You've messed it up. Your conscience should be saying, God wants you to do right.

God wants you to be holy. Every sinner, at one time or another, remembers that God brought His fear upon them just as He did to the children of Israel at Mount Sinai. Every sinner in this place tonight listening to me remembers a time that you were afraid of God.

You had a real fear in your heart. There was a time you really tried. You said, I'm going to do right. I'm going to be holy. I'm going to be clean. I'm going to be pure. And you tried, and you tried in the heart, and you tried the worst it got.

Every promise you made, you broke. I mean, you did everything within your power trying to be holy and clean. I have preached in some of the worst places for sinners in the world. I held a crusade in Mexico City, the largest prison in the world, I was told, over 5 ,000 prisoners.

And my crusade was held inside this big prison in the security ward. A security ward was inside the prison. Nobody got out of this ward. There were 150 to 200 men in there. Every one of them were there for life, for murder or rape.

Some of them had murdered and raped. I was in this security ward, and I looked at those murderers and rapists, and you know what I did? I thought, there was a time that those, and oh, they were hard. They were killers.

I said, God, how did they get that way? How did they get so hard? There was a time they were tender children. They honored you. They were reaching out to you, God, but what happened to them? I see drug addicts and alcoholics and prostitutes walking the street, and just throwing their life away.

I said, God, what happened? At one time, their mother and dad had them on the lap. They were dear children. They played ball with their friends, and many of them went to Sunday school and church. And what happened to them?

How did they get so hard? And you see, this is what happens to the children of Israel. If you go back to this mountain here, let me tell you why people get hard. Let me tell you why people turn against God.

They get just a little mad at Him. They get angry at Him. Now, go back to Mount Sinai. And look, for six days, God speaking and thundering. The Bible said, And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of all the children of Israel.

For 40 days and 40 nights, Moses was up there communing with God. But you know, for six days, that mountain was rumbling. And you see all the people sitting in their tents. And Moses is gone. And now the mountains quieted down.

The thunder and the lightning is gone. And you can hear the people talking in their tents. And one man is saying to the other, He says, How? How can we be holy? See, God had already given them the law.

Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt have no other god. Thou shalt not steal. And they started playing over those laws in their mind. And they saw the terrible fear of God. And they were saying, How can I be holy like that?

How can I be like that? I can't be like that. And they saw how sinful and how weak. They could feel the flesh in them. Their evil desires. And then they looked at the law of God and said, That's impossible.

And I can see them going from tent to tent. And pretty soon there are little groups here, little group here. And they're beginning. It's probably ten days now going by. And people are saying, Hey, I don't understand that.

How can you be holy? How can you be clean? And one man finally stands up and says, Well, I don't know about the rest of you. And I can just imagine in my mind this happening. I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't serve a God who scares you.

I can't serve a God that's mean and angry. See, they picture God as mean and angry. Just sticking a law out there. Bringing them out in the wilderness and abandoning them. Allow them to be tempted and then saying, You're going to be tempted, but don't give in to it.

You're going to have sin all around you, but I expect you to stay clean. Don't touch the sin. And that's what's happened. You know, here's what happens in Israel now. You say, Brother David, How can people who had seen the glory of God in just 40 days turn their back on God?

Do you know that Aaron, his high priest, had been up on that mountain with Moses along with Nadab and Abihu, two other priests? And the Bible says, listen to this, Aaron also saw the God of Israel walking on a brilliant pavement of sapphire stones.

Now, no one has seen the face of God. Even though God spoke face to face with Moses, He spoke through a veil. And then only in shadows. But you see, God revealed His back parts and revealed His feet walking on sapphire stones.

And Aaron had been on that mountain. He actually saw the feet of God walking on this jeweled pavement. This was a vision. This eternal cosmic path. God was walking it. You know what he did? This man who'd been in the very presence of God.

Folks, what would you do if you had been up on a mountain and you actually saw God walking? You saw Almighty God, the God of the whole universe, walking. And you knew you were in His presence. You heard this earth-shattering thunder of His voice.

Wouldn't you say, oh, I'm going to serve a God like that. He has so much power. It was something else. But look, 40 days later, that same man, those people of Israel now saying, we can't serve that kind of God.

They got mad at God for making such a big demand to be holy, and they didn't know how to be holy, to put such a law on them, and they didn't know how to fulfill the law. And so they came to Aaron. They said, we don't know what happened to that man Moses and his God.

We want another God. So Aaron says, bring all your earrings. Bring all your gold. And he put them in a fire. And the Bible said, he fastened. In other words, he molded a golden calf out of all the gold earrings and all the gold bracelets and medallions.

And not only did he build a golden taff, he built an altar in front of that golden calf. Can you imagine a man of God who'd been on a mountain seeing God walk in just 40 days saying to all Israel, come, gather around.

This is your God. He's pointing to a piece of gold. He said, this is the God that brought you out of Israel. This is your God. The people started stripping off their clothes, getting drunk, cutting themselves, singing and dancing, lewd and nude.

I mean, in 40 days, that nation went crazy. Three million Jews dancing. Now, I'm sure not all of them because later God found some people that want, Moses found some people that are on God's side. I believe there were multitudes that didn't give in to that.

But all that was a spirit, a wild spirit group gripped Israel that day. And I've thought about that. Oh, I've thought about that for days now. How can people turn their back on God 40 days from heaven to hell?

And I think I know God's given me the clue. I know now why sinners rebel against Jesus Christ. I know those who've once known the Lord, they've been to church, they've known God's power, they've known His glory, and then they turn against God.

They serve the devil with all their heart. I've seen people so on fire for God and a week later, right down on their back, serving the devil. You wouldn't even know they ever knew God. Just like Aaron, the children of Israel.

And I know why that man... Can't you see Aaron getting mad? He said, oh man, God's too high. He's too holy. I'm too weak. I'll never make it. And I think in Aaron's heart there was an anger. He was mad that God made such a great holy demand.

He said, be holy, even as I am holy. And Aaron says, I can't be holy like you, oh holy God. And so he had to come down here and this, that whole wild scene was an act of rebellion. It was a madness. People saying, I can't be holy.

I can't do it. I've tried it. I can't make it. So they just went wild. God was angry. He said to Moses, get down off this mountain. Go back to your people. Look how quickly they've turned away from me and my commandment to be holy.

Folks, there's never been anything like it in the history of the world. When God's chosen people in just 40 days went from the glory and the voice of God to worshiping a golden calf. You see, there are some of you here right now.

You say, I can't serve a God like you. Sorry, Brother David. I can't serve that kind of God. I've tried and I can't make it. I can't be holy. And you're mad at God. Aaron was mad at God. The children of Israel were mad at God.

He said, isn't it bad enough to be in a world like this where there's so much temptation and trial? Then God come along and tell you you're going to be damned if you don't live up to His holy standards.

He said, I can't do it. You see, that's what's happening to many of you sitting here tonight. That's the way you've responded. You say, I can't be holy. So you just gave up. You gave up. And there are dozens and dozens of people sitting here tonight.

You may not admit it, but down deep in your heart, you're just a little mad at God. You're a little mad that He just didn't come down and take all the sin out of your heart and do it for you. You're kind of mad that God, you feel your conscience screaming at you.

And you say, God, I wish you'd leave me alone. I've had drug addicts walk out on me and I'd see them three or four weeks later on the street and they'd say, David, get on my back. I'd say, well, I'm not on your back.

One drug addict said, well, somebody's on my back. Every time I stick a needle in, I hear God breathing down my neck. And he said, I hear you praying for me. Quit praying for me. Folks, the most miserable sinners in the world are those who've once seen the glory and the power of God and then they go out and try to serve the devil.

Oh, how miserable. How terrible it is. They're miserable. The most miserable sinners in the world. Better to never come to Jesus than having come to Jesus and go out and try to live for the devil. You're messed up.

The Second Response: Self-Righteous Effort

You don't have a chance. Miserable. The second response. God says, be holy. So, bless God, I'm going to be holy if it kills me. And so you start out in your own effort to be righteous and holy and clean and pure.

You say, well, bless God, I'm going to suppress the devil in me. I'm going to burn it out. I'm going to pray it out. I'm going to fast it out. Somehow I'm going to please God. I'm not going to hell, man.

I'm going to be holy. Sounds like somebody knows what I'm talking about tonight. Paul said of these people, I give them credit for having a zeal or love for God, but it's all misdirected because they are ignorant of God's holiness and righteousness.

So they go about to establish their own righteousness. They say, I'm going to do it myself. They have not submitted, they have not surrendered themselves to the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ.

They are going about to try to be holy in their own way. You see, they go into the Bible and they say, well, there it is. God says, shun the very appearance of evil. The Bible says, resist the devil and he'll flee from you.

The Bible says, put aside the sin that easily besets you. The Bible says, put off the old man and the old evil desires. Touch not the unclean thing. The Bible says, don't yield your body to the devil and to temptation.

That makes it sound like it's something just you do, doesn't it? So people say, well, that's what it says. Go do it, so I've got to go do it. Well, you go do it in your own power and you will fail. You will fall fat in your face.

You will make promise after promise. You'll break every promise you make. And the harder you try, the worse it'll get. You cannot do it on your own strength. So off we go. Say, well, I'm going to be holy so we're going to give up cigarettes and we give up drinking.

Some give up drugs. Some quit going to theaters and some quit dancing and some quit playing their cards. Now, folks, a true Christian doesn't have anything to do with any of that. He leaves that all behind because he doesn't need that because he's satisfied with Jesus, you see.

But you see, doing all those things, you can quit all those things and still be full of the devil and never be saved, even if you leave all those things. I know a lot of self-righteous Christians. They go around boasting, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

They're like the Pharisee in the Bible. They go around saying, I don't live like those poor sinners. And they stick their nose up. They go to church. They're so self-righteous that everybody thinks they're holy.

And Lord Jesus looked at those self-righteous Pharisees. He said, on the outside, you look like you're white and clean and all washed up. But inside, you're full of dead man's bones. You're full of stinking putrefaction.

You're full of worms and snakes. He called them vipers. Snakes. Some of you people that are sinners say, boy, that makes me feel pretty good. Well, follow me, please. There are others who want to be holy so badly they fast and they pray and they weep.

You see, they sin and confess and sin and confess. It's a merry-go-round. They get out of Egypt, but they never go to Canaan land. They live in the wilderness. God didn't call you just out of Egypt, which is the world, to stick you in a wilderness of depression and fear and being a victim of the devil.

No, you're just passing through. God wants you someday to get to Canaan where there's victory over the power of the devil. Oh, think of all the... In New York City, I've watched it for years. Sweet little Catholic grandmothers.

They never miss Mass every day of the year through the sleet and the snow. It can be 15 below zero and chill factor. There's the little grandmas all wrapped up and they're going to Mass and they've got their little rosaries and they're praying.

She prays to Mary. She prays to all the saints. Mary and all the saints. Joseph and every saint. Please make me acceptable to God. Please make me holy. Now folks, that's beautiful. That's commendable.

But see, the Lord said that's a zeal. It's misdirected. And He said, unless that dear mother submits to the righteousness and believes that Jesus Christ alone can make her holy, she could never be holy if she went to Mass for 50 years.

Think of all the Jewish, very orthodox, religious Jewish people all over the world who want to be holy like their father Abraham. And so they go through all the traditions. Oh, they are so strict. Very, very strict.

They never miss it. They keep the law. They keep it right down to the minutest detail. But the Bible, now that's commendable. And thank God for devout Jewish friends. But the Bible said, unless you submit to the righteousness of Jesus Christ, all of your works, all of your self-righteousness is filthy rags in His sight.

All your tradition, all of your self-efforts mean nothing in the sight of God. And the prophet Ezekiel said, the righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him on the day of his sin if he trusts in his own righteousness.

If he trusts in his own self-effort. Do you know God hates, God despises every effort to please Him through self-effort, through just doing it by yourself. Every book that's been written about how to be holy, every holiness movement that tries to say you're going to be holy by doing this or doing that, that's all in vain.

Now, give me your good ear right now. I want to show you something. I'm a student of church history. Let me show you what I found. These are monks. These are men who wanted to be holy so bad they thought they'd try to destroy their flesh.

They had evil desires in them. Their mind was evil. Their eye was full of lust. And it scared them. And they heard God say, be holy. And listen to what they did. Some monks slept on bundles of thorns and piles of broken glass.

They made their beds out of thorns and broken glass and slept for years on thorns and broken glass thinking if they'd suffer through their body and feel the pain, that would push all the evil out of them.

Some of the monks bound one foot and tied the foot this way and for years hopped around on one foot by thinking, well, God, look how desperate I am. I'm desperate enough to hop around on one foot to be holy.

And some of them finally were crippled. A monk by the name of Simon Stilites had a big column, a big stone column 30 feet high. He climbed up that column. They had a little rope they had to bring his food.

He stayed on top of that column for 30 years so that would take him away from all the temptations of the world. And when he didn't have any more strength, he had somebody erect a pole on top there and he strapped himself with ropes and he finally died up there.

He was up there I think some 42 years up there trying to be holy, trying to stay away from the world. 42 years up on top of that column. Folks, you say that's foolish, that's stupid, but look in our modern days.

I'll tell you what I've been through. I'm only 50 years old. When I was a kid, to be holy, your hair had to be a certain way. Now, there was a time that short hair was a sin and then long hair was a sin.

And when I was a young man in church, makeup was a sin. My granddad called women who used rouge and makeup prostitutes right from the pulpit. He said, you're a harlot. I mean, only harlots did that. And I went into a church once when I was a boy and the preacher, this is the truth, he had a yardstick tacked to the door and he stamped the door of the church.

And the women had to have their dresses at a certain length. And he had another yardstick and he measured the length. A short dress was of the devil. And you dare not wear a real short, you know, the kind that you see around today.

Your dress had to be long. Your sleeves had to be long. And man, you weren't a Christian unless you wore the right kind of clothes. And usually it had to be black. One of the great holiness preachers of all time, Dr. Pink.

I've got almost all of his books. And he preached nothing but holiness, you see. And he said, I don't even cook. It's a sin to cook on Sunday. He said, we cook all our meals on Saturday and we serve it cold on Sunday.

Now, he was an Englishman. He said, except for tea, we do cook our tea. You see what you get into? All the rules and regulations and people are going around and they think that just because... Almost everybody knows, well, I've got this one thing in my life I can just get the victory over this one thing, I'd be a holy person.

No, you wouldn't. Something else would come in and suck up into that place. It'd be something else. God won't let you pick and choose. He won't let you fight just one sin in your life. That's not the way it works.

We've invented all these modern ways to try to be holy. You know, there are some church groups and little prayer groups that think that they're suddenly become very holy people. They're kind of self-righteous.

See, they've discovered what they call holiness. And they said, we have left the world completely. Some of them go to communes to live. And that's why there are so many Christian communes now because people want to be holy.

But folks are going about it in the wrong way. You can't be holy by just taking yourself away. The monasteries proved that. For years, men tried to be holy by shutting them into monasteries. And it never did work.

Some of the worst temptations men ever fought were inside the cloistered walls of monasteries. Some of the worst temptations that people have ever gone through have gone through in Christian communes where the world was shut out.

Because you see, you don't shut the world out just by your location. Here is where you shut the world out, in your heart. And I believe Jesus Christ can give you a holiness so powerful, so much like himself, that you can walk through hell itself.

And if every demon and devil of hell was spit out on earth, it wouldn't touch you because you have an inner holiness. It'll take you through any hell. Hallelujah. Oh, my heart breaks. You know, I look at the church and I see such worldly-mindedness and I see people so materialistic-minded.

I've had young couples confess when they come forward, Brother Dave, you're preaching, convicted me tonight because I was out for bigger house and bigger cars and I wanted all these things and I was never satisfied.

And I see this lusting and grabbing and reaching for material things. People want it so bad. And I see people that don't pray anymore. And I see people parked in front of their TV sets watching junk. Folks, you know that within two or three years we're going to have nudity on the soap operas.

They already have it in Australia and New Zealand. And it's coming to America. I saw it in Newsweek magazine. And if you read my book, The Vision, six years ago I predicted that was coming. And old friends, we're right at the brink of it now.

And all hell is going to break loose in America and the world. And I see the worldliness in the church. And I know that in spite of all that people are wanting to be hungry and they really want to do what is right.

And I want to stand up and scream, Be holy! And I hear that cry of God to this wicked generation with the world creeping into the church. We've got to be holy. We've got to be pure. And then I look at people trying.

Oh, how we try. Folks, I spent years crying, fasting, praying, weeping, Oh God, make me holy. But I would always feel that God was mad at me. I always felt... I would... You see, if you try yourself, you can make it for a week, sometimes a month, or maybe even a year, but then just when you think you've got it licked, bang, down you go.

Hmm? Uh-huh. Everybody that knows that's true, say amen. Oh yes, you testify how God saved you and filled you with His Spirit, and then all of a sudden you look at yourself and when you're honest, you know that you're not what you should be.

The evil thoughts. And I mean, you could be a very saintly person and have all the darkness of hell flood your mind, fill you with lust, and set your eyes aflame, and then the devil comes along and says, You're dirty, you're filthy, and a lot of Christians do that, and they just give up.

The Third Response: Surrender to Christ's Righteousness

They say, I can't make it. They quit. Let me bring you to the beautiful part. The third response, the kind the Holy Ghost wants from you and me now. When God demands you to be holy, admit you can't be holy on your own power, so surrender to the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Give up fighting to battle yourself and surrender by faith to His promise to make you holy. God has promised to make you holy. You see, God made that demand so high, so impossible, you can't do it. You tell me one person in this building that can meet that demand to be holy.

Show me one person that can meet that demand to be holy on their own strength and on their own power. Why did God make it so powerful? You know why God did that to children? You know why He appeared in His glory and gave the law?

He was trying to show those people that they couldn't do it, and He had a tabernacle built for them, and inside that tabernacle a priest was consecrated, and there was an altar there, and He said, I've made it so high, you can't do it and you're going to fail.

But He said, once a year, Aaron or Moses is going to have a little lamb, and that lamb is called the atonement, and I'm going to have that lamb slain, and the blood is going to be applied. He said, I want every one of you to know that that lamb there is going to make it possible for you to be relieved from all the guilt, and when that lamb is slain, I'm going to forgive all your sins, even sins you don't know about.

Everything you've committed, you may have broken the law and didn't know it. And if you didn't have this lamb, you could be slain, you could be killed because you broke the law. And all God wanted to do was to make them know how helpless they were, to show them how impossible to keep the law, so that when that lamb was slain, they could see a picture of something going to try to sell the whole world, because that lamb was this symbol of Jesus Christ who was slain on a cross, and He made atonement so that the world could be forgiven of all their sins and could be made holy and righteous by what Jesus did.

That lamb laying on that altar wiped away their sins and their guilt. He made a way for them to be holy and to be clean in His sight by putting their faith in what was done on that altar. You are not supposed to look to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died on a cross and He shed His blood so that you didn't have to be a slave of the devil anymore, so that He could kill the power of the devil and His sin in you.

God never intended for you to do anything more but to look at His law, to be holy and fall on your face and say, God, I can't be holy. I've tried and I've tried. Folks, I got tired of trying to be holy.

I got tired of making Him promises. And I said, God, when You sent Jesus to die at the cross, is that all that I got out of it? Is that all it means that I come in, I get saved, and then I'm tossed around by the devil?